{"id":8358,"date":"2020-11-27T09:29:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T15:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8358"},"modified":"2020-11-27T09:29:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T15:29:16","slug":"open-street-map-is-having-a-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8358","title":{"rendered":"Open Street Map is having a moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joemorrison.medium.com\/openstreetmap-is-having-a-moment-dcc7eef1bb01\">Joe Morrison<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, anytime the wealthiest institutions in history are quietly collaborating on something, I think it\u2019s worth noting. I\u2019m not sure there is a precedent for such a collaboration \u2014 if you know of a case where otherwise embittered mega-corporations worked with a global community of volunteers on a public dataset\u2026let me know. I\u2019d love to learn about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The question on my mind is how idiosyncratic this situation really is. Does OSM represent a model for strategic corporate sponsorship of public goods moving forward? Or is it tragically inimitable?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>For instance: I work for a company called Azavea that, among many noble efforts, maintains Cicero. It\u2019s a database of elected officials and legislative districts in several countries around the world that gets updated daily. You can imagine that this should be a public good \u2014 like, doesn\u2019t the government already have this information? Turns out\u2026nah. Cicero requires ceaseless, grueling work to keep updated, and that means serious investment of time and money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>One of the key differences between Cicero and OSM is a community of contributors. Community is what makes OSM special. Without it, the project is \u201cdefault dead,\u201d as they say in Silicon Valley. Much like elected official information, map data goes stale fairly quickly and therefore requires constant life support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Morrison: Well, anytime the wealthiest institutions in history are quietly collaborating on something, I think it\u2019s worth noting. I\u2019m not sure there is a precedent for such a collaboration \u2014 if you know of a case where otherwise embittered mega-corporations worked with a global community of volunteers on a public dataset\u2026let me know. I\u2019d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8359,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358\/revisions\/8359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}